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Hardcover Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature Volume 9 Book

ISBN: 0520242769

ISBN13: 9780520242760

Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature Volume 9

This beautifully written work sheds new light on the origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism with close readings of four well-known texts--the Lotus Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Tathagatagarbha Sutra, and Vimalakirtinirdesa. Treating these sutras as literary works rather than as straightforward philosophic or doctrinal treatises, Alan Cole argues that these writings were carefully sculpted to undermine traditional monastic Buddhism and to gain legitimacy...

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